We study the economic and social integration of refugee children. The analysis follows war refugees arriving from … former Yugoslavia to Sweden in the early 1990s for up to 25 years. We find strong educational and economic integration … migration had grades and high school completion on par with natives. Poor initial school performance among teenage refugees was …

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental feature of the Norwegian spatial dispersal policy for UNHCR quota refugees …, which leads to nearly as-if random initial residential settlement of the refugees. In this framework, we study if there are … higher participation rate in the initial neighbourhood is associated with an 1.2%-point increase in the refugees’ later …

documented experiences regarding this group of children. The main focus is on Sweden, the European country that has received most …

that immigrants lower their participation rates in welfare with time spent in Sweden. Refugees display substantially higher …This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the … program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1 …

find that immigrants lower their participation rates in welfare with time spent in Sweden. Refugees display substantially …This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the … program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1 …

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the … program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1 …

refugees. The program has immediate and substantial short-run effects on employment, corresponding to around 15 percentage …